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Nigel Farage Took £50,000 from Crypto Firms Then Said He Was ‘Not Aware’ of the Industry Funding His Party
The self-proclaimed ‘straight-talking’ Reform UK leader has been far from straight about who is funding his attempted rise to power, reports Iain Overton
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Times Journalist Reveals Westminster Fake News Scam
Stories quoting three sources can be nothing of the sort, according to the Times parliamentary sketch writer: they are all from the same person – a single Labour spin doctor
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Reform Council Sacks Long-Serving Vicar as Standards Chief, in Wave of Cuts to Scrutiny
Reverend Canon Hilary Barber says he was given no warning or thanks by Nigel Farage’s party for his years of service
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Reform UK’s ‘Meta Glasses’ Councillor Who Was Accused of Shaming Disabled Man and Dyslexic Colleague Is Put in Charge of Special Educational Needs
Sam Journet has been accused of bullying, intimidation and filming residents and staff with Meta-style camera glasses
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Ofcom Upholds Met Office Complaint Against Talk TV for Claiming Forecaster ‘Made Up’ Temperature Data
Exclusive: Broadcast regulator censures now-sacked Mike Graham’s show for unfairness to Met Office in landmark case
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Reform UK Councillor Shares Racist and Islamophobic Content and Backs Tommy Robinson
The newly-elected Wakefield councillor repeatedly shared extreme and racist content, and backed multiple far-right figures
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Reform UK Councillors Told to Speak Only to GB News’ as Party Shuns Local Press
Local news editor in Ipswich says Reform party chair instructed his councillors to shut out the press in favour of only speaking to the right-wing news channel
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‘Flag Man’ Behind Nazi-Linked Anti-Migrant Protests Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Woman
Craig Kitts, who says he is fighting to ‘protect our women and children’ from migrants, admitted to assault by beating
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Reform UK Councillor Who Claimed Social Media Post Had Been ‘Misinterpreted’ as Racist Shared Multiple Other Offensive Posts
Posts uncovered by Byline Times show newly-elected Reform UK Councillor Ken Tranter comparing Muslims to cockroaches, who would “take over” the country
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How Tommy Robinson Disguises White Supremacism In the Coded Language of Anti-Islam Politics
Robinson repeatedly uses “native” for white, “invader” for non-white and “African” and “Somali” for black across 140 posts examined by Byline Times
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Toxic Pesticides Could Be Banned From UK Farms as Government Urged to Align With EU Rules
Ministers are considering a new report by a cross-party body which recommends closer alignment with European rules on limiting the use of harmful chemicals in our agriculture
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10,000 People Sign Official Petition Demanding Government End ‘Capture of UK Democracy by Media Billionaires’
Ministers will be forced to respond to the proposals for a new ‘Media Sovereignty Act’ after campaigners passed a key threshold
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The More Than 30 Scandal-Hit Reform Candidates Elected Last Week
Voters last Thursday returned dozens of Reform councillors who have variously pushed Islamophobia, antisemitic conspiracy theories, Covid denial and praise for Tommy Robinson and Enoch Powell
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Ukraine’s ‘Frozen’ Frontlines Are Shifting Significantly
A series of drone attacks on Russian oil facilities by Ukraine been a more significant blow to Putin’s war machine than Western sanctions
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Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth
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Reform UK Candidate Accused of Mocking Disabled Residents as ‘Benefit Scroungers’ and ‘Skanks’
Harry Phillips, who is standing for Nigel Farage’s party in Surrey, allegedly described a constituent and his wife as ‘ponces of society’ in leaked messages seen by Byline Times
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‘There Is No Land Called Palestine’: The Reform Pastor Preaching the End Times in Coventry
Reform candidate John Quintanilla tells his congregation that Islam brings “darkness” and the existence of Palestine is a “media lie”
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Reform UK Candidate Shared Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Posts And Campaigned for Far-Right Restore Britain
Caspar Thomas, who Nigel Farage’s party says has now been expelled following inquiries by Byline Times and HOPE not hate, shared posts including grossly offensive racist slurs
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Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church
For a year-and-a-half, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper’s findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s claim that he refuses to associate with extreme elements of the populist right
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Nigel Farage’s Foreign Policy Chief Hosted Pro-Trump Think Tank Promoting Tariffs and Greenland Invasion
Alan Mendoza brought together serving British generals to the event where material was distributed endorsing the seizure of NATO-owned territory
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Reform’s Plan to ‘Punish’ Green Voters With Detention Centres is ‘Election Interference’ Complaints Argue
Watchdog asked to investigate after party’s home affairs spokesperson ‘guarantees’ areas electing Reform MPs will be exempt from 24,000-capacity migrant facilities
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‘Reform UK Wouldn’t Leave Me Alone’: My Experience Being Hounded to Stand for Nigel Farage’s Party
Reform UK repeatedly cold-called journalist Lucy Gape asking if she would stand as a local candidate. When she looked into it, it revealed a world of poor vetting and murky data practices
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Plaid Cymru Leader Says Party Is Prepared for Government as Labour Dominance Collapses in Wales
Rhun ap Iorwerth claims only Plaid Cymru can stop Reform taking power in the Senedd, as he urges Labour and Green voters to back him in a “straight fight” against Farage’s party
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‘I Set Up a Fake Far-Right News Channel to Interview Reform UK Candidates and This Is What They Told Me’
The Reform hopefuls were quick to condemn scandals supposedly overseen by Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat councils, without realising they were actually condemning the actions of their own party
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Reform UK’s Basildon Leader Accused of Bullying After Filming Council Staff and Residents With Meta-Style Smart Glasses
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Sam Journet, who is leading Reform’s bid to take two Essex councils, was arrested last year following multiple complaints about him filming in private areas
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Robert Jenrick’s Alleged £40k Donor Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud in California Ponzi Scheme
Police are examining allegations that the Reform UK MP’s Conservative leadership campaign was unlawfully funded by a US-based investor who pled guilty to fraud
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TUC Deputy Leader Says Labour Must Shout Louder About Workers’ Rights in Order to Beat Reform
Kate Bell says Nigel Farage’s party plans to roll back the Employment Rights Act and Equality Act are deeply unpopular
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‘If Anyone Can Become an Englishman, What is an Englishman?’: Reform UK’s James Orr on the ‘Great Replacement’
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy endorsed extremist ‘Great Replacement’ theory, called for the reversal of a quarter-century of British migration, and named himself UK chair of a pan-European far-right alliance, in conversation with now deceased ‘MAGA’ activist Charlie Kirk.
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Hope and Heartache in Chernihiv
As 175 Ukrainian POWs are returned to Chernihiv, desperate families continue to search for their missing loved ones, Kris Parker reports
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Nigel Farage Promotes Reform UK Donor’s Pothole Repair Machine on Election Leaflets
The promotions of JCB’s flagship ‘Pothole Pro’ followed hundreds of thousands of pounds being gifted to the party
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Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops
Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of ‘solar zealots’ and Josiah Mortimer is enthusiastically along for the ride
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Reform UK Candidate Runs Firm Hired by Sanctioned Pro-Putin Bosnian Serb Leadership
Kenneth Morris, who is standing for the party in Erdington, Birmingham, co-ordinates the UK arm of a transnational far-right political network
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Bereaved Covid Families Demand Nigel Farage Sack Conspiracy Theory Reform Candidates
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice tell the Reform leader that the conspiracy views revealed by Byline Times are “an insult” to the 230,000 people who died in the pandemic
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Trojan Horse? Rupert Lowe’s Far-Right Restore Britain Is Standing 13 Candidates as ‘Independents’ in One Council
Anti-racist campaigners accuse the ex-Reform MP of seeking to “disguise” the extreme views and affiliations of his candidates
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Economists Slam Reform UK’s ‘Fantasy’ Claims That ‘Boriswave’ Migrants Will Cost Households £20,000
“Reform have simply invented their own numbers…” say experts
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Escaping the Drone Siege in the Humanitarian Catastrophe of Oleshki
Zarina Zabrisky speaks to Ukrainians about the horrors of an underreported genocide taking place right now in the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region
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Reform UK Candidate Claimed COVID Was ‘Pentagon-Led Plot’ in Conspiracy Theory Journal
Exclusive: Reform candidate David Booth is listed as the author of a paper arguing the pandemic was “staged” by Western military and intelligence agencies
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Reform-Run Kent Council Sells Off Antony Gormley Sculpture After Raising Taxes
Nigel Farage’s flagship council quietly sold Two Stones, one of the sculptor’s earliest commissions, as part of a wave of publicly owned art disposals that critics call “shameful”
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The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enemies
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The British Tax Havens Shielding Big Oil’s Iran War Windfall
As Shell and BP prepare to pocket billions from Trump’s war in Iran, a Byline Times investigation reveals how British jurisdictions are quietly doing the work of protecting them
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Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat
The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds
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Reform UK Energy Prize Winners Had Nominated Party’s Own Branch Chair
As Greater Manchester Police confirm they are reviewing a complaint into the prize draw, Byline Times can reveal that the party’s Wigan branch chair – nominated by the winners – was present at the doorstep prize ceremony
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GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters
The individuals were presented as ordinary members of the public, without informing viewers of their political affiliations, a new Byline Times investigation reveals
